[Webcam-osx-devs] Any recommendation when buying a webcam

[Stefan M. <mo...@ir...>]

I'm about to buy a webcam and need to use it both on my GNU/Linux machine
and on my Mac.  It'll have to be a USB webcam, and seeing how poorly those
support Mac OS X, it seems that macam is my best bet.

So what would "you" recommend for a webcam arounf $50 (below $100)?

- it should be supported by macam, obviously.
- I should be able to buy it (you have no control over that, but I get all
  it means is that something mainstream is better).
- it would be great if not only the driver works, but the
  vendor/manufacturer was supportive/helpful.

Before I realized that Mac support was anything but a given, I was planning
to buy a Logitech Communicate STX (actually I did buy it, got it to work on
my GNU/Linux machine and only then realized it didn't work on my Mac and
returned it).

Reading this mailing list I saw that there's a (limited?) possibility of
using code from spca5xx Linux driver (which does support the STX, tho
I don't know how well), so maybe the STX could be "easily" supported
as well?  I'm a programmer so I could dig into it (as long as it's not too
involved since I don't have that much time to sink into it).  But it seems
Logitech is fairly unhelpful w.r.t Free Software, so I would prefer to give
my money to a more enlightened company if such a thing exists.


        Stefan